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WEDNESDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 2011
PARTNERS
Hey, panic merchants: asylum
seekers are already living next door
THIS week’s relocation of the first 27 individuals from
detention into the community onto a bridging visa will
finally bring Australia in line with other countries that
implement comprehensive community-based processing.
It is the action many of us hoped for when New Directions
in Detention was announced in 2010, encompassing seven
key immigration values, including No.5 “Detention in
immigration detention centres is only to be used as a last
resort and for the shortest practicable... Read more
DES RYAN : COMMENT
THE golfers Aaron Baddeley, Webb Simpson
and Bubba Watson are all men of the
Christian faith.
How do I know? Because they bang on about
it so.
There are doubtlessly many other Christians playing
professional golf, too, but it’s these three who make a very
public point of their faith.
Instead of letting their clubs do the talking, they use their
sports profile to nail their Christian colours to the mast. I
have heard them praise their Sweet Lord Jesus while being
interviewed during the TV golf coverage.
Now, I am all for Divine Guidance, especially... Read more
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Giving till it hurts
Life began with a planetary mega-organism
WILL MCROSTIE
CAZ COLEMAN/CRIKEY
MICHAEL MARSHALL/NEW SCIENTIST
YOUTH
OPINION
SCIENCE
As we haul haltingly into the festive season, one is faced with
the dreaded task of gift-giving.
I AM no Grinch, but I often find the mandated generosity of the
end-of-year period to be a chore. To give is a wonderful act, but
it generally requires a sense of spontaneity and philanthropic
impulse that is absent when social codes demand it.
My family has dispensed with the tight-smiling, faux-surprised pantomime that
Christmas day can be, opting instead for practical negotiations and exchanges
of goodwill to be used down the track when they’re actually necessary.
Similarly, as my year of 21st birthdays rolls along, more and more people aren’t
bothering with gift-buying, especially as the 21st evolves from a close... Read more
Out of bounds
THIS entire time-lapse sequence of remote Australian outback and natural
wonders was painstaking captured on digital SLR cameras and edited from
104,000 individual photographs by photographer Dayman Steptoe.
Read more at the National Geographic, or watch the video above.
Outback time lapse
Dayman Steptoe, Remote Exposure Photography
PHOTO: Bubba Watson
ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single
organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism
like none seen since, it filled the planet’s oceans before
splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all
living things on Earth today. This strange picture is emerging
from efforts to pin down the last universal common
ancestor - not the first life that emerged on Earth but the life
form that gave rise to all others.
Read more on LUCA at New Scientist.
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